Rich Geib's New Year's Resolutions 2021

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"The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals."
Melody Beattie

New Year's Resolutions for 2021

"Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties."
Hellen Keller

YEAR OF 2021

"I discovered that a fresh start is a process. A fresh start is a journey -- a journey that requires a plan."
Vivian Jokotade

Rich Geib's 2021 New Year's Resolutions!

What should I do? Where to go? How to live?

Do all I can to get Julia well introduced into high school, and Elizabeth happily ensconced into middle school.

It is a big year of adjustments academically for both daughters. I hope to do all I can to help them to make the transition successfully.

STATUS: Total success, especially for Julia. It is as if I was re-introduced to my older daughter now that I take her to and fro school, and am her tennis coach. Kind of overwhelming, but worth it.

Continue listening to KUSC and KDFC at night. And more Charles Dickens. Live like they did before the 20th century.

Hold onto the community offered by live radio in your evenings. Try never to be so busy that music remains absent from your evenings. The pandemic has taught you to try and exclude digital distractions so that you might spend your evenings as if it were 1930. Quiet evenings, deep thoughts, serious reading, beautiful music, and early bedtimes and wake ups. Continue your march through the novels of Charles Dickens and similar -- march step-by-step patiently, and you shall scale the 19th century "large, loose, baggy monsters" over time. Avoid superficial temptations on your time and attention by YouTube or other online interruptions. Focus and reflect, don't wander or dawdle. Go inside, not outside. There are greater yields that way. Remember the lessons of the pandemic when much of the 21st century was closed down by quarantine and you reverted to the rhythms of previous centuries. Keep it simple.

STATUS: Not so much success. Once the school year started, I became overwhelmed with responsibilities. I pretty much went back to living like I always do. On the other hand, I had plenty of personal writing and thinking in 2021. I also kept my body plenty strong through solid and nearly continuous workouts.

After an unexpected and exhausting 2020 (Coronavirus pandemic), I find myself devoid of much in terms of plans. So for the first time since I start making these resolutions I will have next to no plans for this upcoming year.

Let's see what we can see in 2021 and go from there. I hope to keep up the positive momentum in terms of workouts, reading, and writing. But we shall see.

STATUS: Another year done. Keep your eye on Julia and then Elizabeth graduating from high school, and then you retiring from work. You have done well so far; don't fall down on the job as the finish line appears in the distance.